Board members should be having more discussions on the mailing list and using meeting times to make decisions

Board members should speak up on the list more often, a few do but could be more

Suggestion to make a blog for the board as an alternative communication medium to the advisory-board list

We have a lot of tickets to go through and we’re not doing so well on tickets (but only 12 outside of fedoracommunity.org domain requests)

Ticket Review: Outstanding community domain requests

Ticket 72: lu.fedoracommunity.org – Belgium & Luxemborg. Fine with it if lu.fc.org points to be.fc.org, as a forwarding address. mdomsch will clarify if that’s the intent with the requestors.

Ticket 73: arabic.fedoracommunity.org – this is a language request vs. geography but that’s okay. Still need to see sample content for what they are looking to post. Language sites okay if they aren’t confusing with namespace for country codes.

Ticket 74: dk for denmark? dk for language or country? – if it’s for a language should be full language name. If it’s for a country or region, it should be country code. Let’s standardize on that and deal with odd cases as we need to.

Ticket 75: China (zn, ch, tw) – cn is the country code, they should get that according to the standards. zn is not a country code (but we did grant an exception to the greece one as a bounce, Spot says this would be a similar exception – use it just as a redirect)

Meta meeting discussion

We have not a lot of time left and a ton more tickets. Let’s add an additional phone meeting next week on Wednesday to try to get through the backlog, before folks leave for Zurich. (Agreed by all).

Other Board Business

IRC Meetings – so far have been more like office hours. Let’s keep doing IRC office hours bi-weekly and do phone meetings weekly to get on top of things. Since this is a big time committment, maybe not every board member has to show up for every office hours?

Topics Covered

Open Tickets

Ticket 77: Israeli domain request – We made it easier to use fedoracommunity.org, but we aren’t prohibiting the use of other TLDs. +1 to granting a trademark license for use in their domain name, fedora.org.il. – approved

We also decided to come up with 5-6 mini-goals as a group. Each board member is to come up with two (mini-goals are actionable goals to get closer to vision, example one is, focus on floss webapps for next 2-3 releases) by Monday 13 Sep.

Ticket 79: Anthropology Report –

Report seems to indicate we need a formal mentoring program

A lot of positiveness / positive energy in the report, is there a way we can make the findings more public?

Ticket 81: start.fedoraproject.org – jsmith went to the marketing meeting; they decided to discuss on the marketing list so jsmith will kick off that discussion.

Ticket 82: Charter for Community Working Group – Rex was unable to attend this meeting; he’ll update us on this next meeting.

Ticket 83: Revisit Updates Vision – There was a lot of discussion here, both about some of the contraints/hardships particular folks against the policy face, plus negative affects on users when applications vs. the base platform are frozen from version updates. Towards the latter point both kopers and a backports repo were discussed as potential solutions. The Board decided to not change the language of the updates vision for now, and agreed that FESCo should be notified that they do have the power to grant exceptions to the policy, although they should write up some criteria for granting and rejecting exception requests as well as not change the updates vision mission statement.

Ticket 84: Annual User Survey – It was suggested we look at how OpenSuSE does their annual user survey. It was noted such studies are generally quite expensive (10’s of k’s at least.) We’ll need to define a scope, target, and goal for the research.

Upcoming Fedora Board Meeting Schedule

Since the Board meeting time is shifting a bit, here’s the schedule of Fedora Board meetings for the immediate future:

Friday, September 10th: Public IRC meeting in #fedora-board-meeting

Monday, September 13: Phone meeting

Monday, September 20: Public IRC meeting in #fedora-board-meeting

Monday, September 27 Phone meeting

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About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.